Sentences with phrase «using synthetic drugs»

My husband has been diagnosed with early onset dementia, he is 56 years old and he has decided to actively monitor this instead of using synthetic drugs.

East Harlem has started a public education campaign warning people about the risk of using synthetic drugs.

This legislation is common sense to keep our laws up to date and make sure there are no loopholes that allow people who use synthetic drugs and drive to get off without proper punishment,» said Senator George Amedore.

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The method involves tagging a molecular drug delivery vehicle with synthetic DNA that can then be used to see how cancerous tumors are responding to specific treatments (the drugs themselves are placed into these tagged nanoparticles).

The shift toward synthetics and opioids has been motivated by both marijuana legalization and by changing drug - use patterns in the US

Recreational «drug» use such as is currently allowed by law here in the U.S. puts upon the general populace many social discords that have tendencies to demoralize the individual welfares thereby lowering the nation's social wellbeing... Synthetically made pharmaceutical drugs can not replace naturally occurring drugs and such synthetics are apt to be more harmful and way more addictive than the naturally occurring ones.

Synthetic HGH is typically used by physicians to treatgrowth disorders, but athletes often abuse the drug to build muscle anddecrease fat, usually in conjunction with anabolic steroids.

Though the club lost outfielder Melky Cabrera, one of its top hitters, to a 50 - game suspension on Aug. 15 after he flunked a drug test for using synthetic testosterone (his ban will end after San Francisco's fifth postseason game, but the club said last week he is not welcome to return), the offense improved over the past two months.

A new study in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Gynaecology confirms what many who have undergone a hospital birth already know: the use of the labor - inducing drug pitocin (synthetic oxytocin) leads to great pain and suffering, including serious adverse, unintended health effects to both mother and infant.

Synthetic oxytocin, which mimics the effects of natural oxytocin on a pregnant woman's uterus, was first marketed in the 1950's, and has largely replaced ergometrine, although a combination drug, called syntometrine, is still used, especially for severe haemorrhage.

The investigation targeted drug suppliers from New York and around the nation — and even overseas — who are using the U.S. Mail to ship narcotics and synthetic drugs, along with other contraband, into the region.

Sen. Charles Schumer (D - NY) is pushing for legislation that would ban 22 chemicals used for making synthetic drugs.

The state reports eight times as many emergency department visits this year related to synthetic drug use.

The use of synthetic drugs like bath salts became a growing health and law enforcement problem in upstate New York this summer.

«The sale and use of K2 and other synthetic drugs is an epidemic in our state.

Recent reports across the nation have detailed multiple arrests of professional football players for using drugs like synthetic marijuana, K2 or Spice, with other instances ending in trips to the hospital for the highly trained athletes.

According to emergency responders, as a result of the local ban on synthetic drugs and bath salts, (voted into law by the Saugerties Town Board on March 29, 2012), hospitalizations resulting from overdoses caused by the use of these substances have been significantly reduced.

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. today announced that he has asked the Oneida County Board of Legislators to adopt a countywide local law banning the synthetic drugs that are used in chemical compounds referred to as «bath salts.»

He demanded the DEA act on 2012 legislation which gave it the power to investigate, ban and shut down the distribution of synthetic drugs like «Spice» or «K2» and the ingredients used to make them.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Sen. Charles Schumer held a pack of gum in one hand and a container of synthetic pot in the other as he called on the federal Drug Enforcement Agency to crack down on the sale of legal chemical substances used to create new synthetic drug combinatiDrug Enforcement Agency to crack down on the sale of legal chemical substances used to create new synthetic drug combinatidrug combinations.

The surge in drug overdoses is driven mostly by the improper use of opioids — prescription painkillers, heroin, and increasingly, synthetic drugs like fentanyl.

In all, more than 6,000 state residents were hospitalized due to the use of dangerous synthetic drugs, the report found.

Schumer says that federal statistics show 2,300 emergency room visits in a two - month period were related to synthetic marijuana use and that poison control center calls about the drug are surging around the nation.

«We have seen an alarming trend in the rise in use of synthetic drugs, that cause just as great, if not greater, danger if people use them and get behind the wheel.

During a stop in Rochester Tuesday, Schneiderman told reporters he's using the state's Labeling and Consumer Protection law to pull synthetic drugs off store shelves.

In 2012, the State's Health Department banned the sale and possession of dozens of chemicals used to create the synthetic drug.

The action plan that the task force has put together calls for identifying and boycotting local businesses that sell synthetic marijuana, organizing a town hall meeting about the drug, and reaching out to and providing services for Bronxites in The Hub who are using drugs.

Venter's work was a proof of principle, but future synthetic cells could be used to create drugs, biofuels and other useful products.

The new material, described online 25 April in Science by synthetic chemist Andreas Lendlein of mnemoScience GmbH in Aachen, Germany, and biomedical engineer Robert Langer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is composed of two polymers, each already used separately in clinical applications such as drug delivery.

«Most synthetic approaches for synthesizing and cross-linking polymeric gels and other materials use catalysts or conditions that can damage sensitive substances such as biologic drugs.

PET carpet advocates report that because plastic beverage containers are made with top quality resins as required by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, recycled PET is superior to lower grades of virgin synthetic fibers used in making other brands of polyester carpet yarns.

Amines are used widely in bioactive molecules, drugs, and various organic materials, and preparing them is one of the most important tasks for synthetic chemists in both academia and industry.

Social work researchers from the University of Washington have found that among a group of active - duty Army personnel who use illicit drugs, the most abused substance is synthetic marijuana, which is harder to detect than other drugs through standard drug tests.

Researchers also found that synthetic marijuana users were two - and - a-half times more likely to develop drug dependence than those who used other drugs (but not alcohol).

One hazard of using synthetic marijuana was needing more and more to get the same effect, a hallmark of drug dependence.

«Army drug users twice as likely to use synthetic marijuana as regular marijuana.»

The team will now develop a bigger library of simplified synthetic versions which can be used is a diverse number of applications, advancing the goal of a clinical drug.

This discovery provides proof - of - concept for the use of natural GroEL / ES to fold D - proteins for a variety of mirror - image drug discovery and synthetic biology applications.

And those drugs are sometimes spiked with more potent opioids such as fentanyl (SN: 9/3/16, p. 14) or even carfentanil, a synthetic opioid that's used to tranquilize elephants.

A combination of genetic modification and synthetic drug development was used to create the new compound, which so far has only been developed in laboratory, not commercial quantities.

That concern is one reason the research team, led by Christina Smolke, a synthetic biologist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, stopped short of making a yeast strain with the complete morphine pathway; medicinal drug makers also primarily use thebaine to make new compounds.

Almost half the sample (46.4 %) reported ever using a new street drug, and the most commonly reported new drug used (by a quarter of the sample) was synthetic cannabinoids, commonly referred to as «Spice» and «K2» in the U.S.

Often perceived as a safe legal alternative to illicit drug use, synthetic marijuana use was associated with 11,561 reports of poisonings in the United States between January 2009 and April 2012.

A new study by researchers affiliated with New York University's Center for Drug Use and HIV Research (CDUHR), is now online ahead of print in Drug and Alcohol Dependence and it is one of the first national studies to examine risk factors for use of synthetic marijuana among a large, nationally representative sample of teeUse and HIV Research (CDUHR), is now online ahead of print in Drug and Alcohol Dependence and it is one of the first national studies to examine risk factors for use of synthetic marijuana among a large, nationally representative sample of teeuse of synthetic marijuana among a large, nationally representative sample of teens.

Their contributions to the yeast community include physical mapping methods, synthetic lethality screen approaches for identifying cross-species candidate genes as potential cancer drug targets, and a widely used set of vectors and yeast host strains that have been instrumental in work that has led to countless discoveries in recent decades.

Now that Zhong and his Ohio State colleagues better understand the DNA - repairing process, they are hoping that synthetic photolyase could be produced, and incorporated into drugs or lotions for use on human sunburn victims.

Cornell researchers are using synthetic DNA to make nanoparticles, dubbed DNAsomes, that can deliver drugs and genetic therapy to the insides of cells.

In addition to providing a simple and much less expensive means of making artemisinin, the most powerful anti-malaria drug in use today, synthetic biology can also help to extend the effectiveness of this drug...

Prior research had developed a number of new compounds making use of a novel drug discovery paradigm which begins with natural products extracted from plants; it then entails selecting synthetic derivatives which demonstrate efficacy in multiple assays testing protection against different factors of the nerve cell damage and death which take place in brain injuries and in age - associated neurodegenerative conditions.

Most of these women, unfortunately, use anabolic steroids (synthetic testosterone) along with other drugs in order to achieve that high degree of muscularity.